TheSt.LouisKid
Sr Member
Someone posted some pics awhile back and I can't find them. It was a gold and silver version. Pics were of one made for the fan films.
Can anyone help?
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Can anyone help?
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Need TOS Klingon communicator pics please.
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This is the one I shot at Worldcon 06. No idea on the maker or what it was used for.
TheSt.LouisKid
Sr Member
It's too bad how little information there is on this piece.
I think this is a very unloved prop.
Love to see a metal lid version as well.
I know it is obscure-ish.
But given the Federation "exploration set" is so popular, The holy trinity of (Comm, Phaser and Tric)
It seems the Klingon equivalent would have more love.
Or as someone over at Trek Prop Zone called it...
The Klingon "eploitation set" :lol
Of course we never saw a TOS Klingon tric, but...
There was a very nice looking original Klingon Tric design for a fan film over at Trek Prop Zone too.
Love to see a metal lid version as well.
I know it is obscure-ish.
But given the Federation "exploration set" is so popular, The holy trinity of (Comm, Phaser and Tric)
It seems the Klingon equivalent would have more love.
Or as someone over at Trek Prop Zone called it...
The Klingon "eploitation set" :lol
Of course we never saw a TOS Klingon tric, but...
There was a very nice looking original Klingon Tric design for a fan film over at Trek Prop Zone too.
TheSt.LouisKid
Sr Member
This is the one I shot at Worldcon 06. No idea on the maker or what it was used for.
So the inside to this one is all a guess. I like that it's all simple as they probably would have done back then. Simple controls like the trigger area on the TOS disruptor.
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We'll have to see if Blu Ray screencaps offer any more detail. The comm first shows up as Eminiar VII technology in "Taste of Armageddon" (note there's no slot in the flipgrid)
Then it's Klingon tech in "Errand of Mercy"
And it gets featured again as the communicator of a Klingon spy in "Elaan of Troyius"
(last montage includes a frame from "Taste of Armageddon")
Also the "slot" in the flipgrid might just be a decal; there's a Klingon design in "Errand of Mercy" which does not get noticed much but it sort of has similarities to a pin worn on the Klingon costumes and may be the design on the comm lid.
Then it's Klingon tech in "Errand of Mercy"
And it gets featured again as the communicator of a Klingon spy in "Elaan of Troyius"
(last montage includes a frame from "Taste of Armageddon")
Also the "slot" in the flipgrid might just be a decal; there's a Klingon design in "Errand of Mercy" which does not get noticed much but it sort of has similarities to a pin worn on the Klingon costumes and may be the design on the comm lid.
TheSt.LouisKid
Sr Member
Is there anything to show the jaggedy slot/hole in the antennae in "Errand of Mercy"?
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Jack T Chance
Sr Member
Wow, it's been so long since I've seen those shows, that I didn't remember that communicator! What a great looking little prop! I'd love to have one of those and a TOS era Klingon "Sonic" Disruptor pistol to go with it! 
:thumbsup
And speaking of the Klingon Disruptors... as I'm sure most of you are well aware, they were ALSO originally seen as pistols on Eminiar VII or one of the other alien worlds, before being reworked with different greeblies (mostly a new "beam emitter" tip) to become the Klingon Disruptor pistols.
So, I guess the Klingons in The Original Series were forever stuck in the role of the "second born" son... they were always getting hand-me-down tech!!! :lol
:thumbsupAnd speaking of the Klingon Disruptors... as I'm sure most of you are well aware, they were ALSO originally seen as pistols on Eminiar VII or one of the other alien worlds, before being reworked with different greeblies (mostly a new "beam emitter" tip) to become the Klingon Disruptor pistols.
So, I guess the Klingons in The Original Series were forever stuck in the role of the "second born" son... they were always getting hand-me-down tech!!! :lol
TheSt.LouisKid
Sr Member
Yes, recycling at it's worst and it's still happening as recently as "Enterprise". Vulcans using Bajoran padds. Klingon medical scanner was previously a DS9 Bajoran tricorder. As if we wouldn't notice. :rolleyes
Wow, it's been so long since I've seen those shows, that I didn't remember that communicator! What a great looking little prop! I'd love to have one of those and a TOS era Klingon "Sonic" Disruptor pistol to go with it!
And speaking of the Klingon Disruptors... as I'm sure most of you are well aware, they were ALSO originally seen as pistols on Eminiar VII or one of the other alien worlds, before being reworked with different greeblies (mostly a new "beam emitter" tip) to become the Klingon Disruptor pistols.
So, I guess the Klingons in The Original Series were forever stuck in the role of the "second born" son... they were always getting hand-me-down tech!!! :lol
The Kliingon empire simply had an aggressive arms selling program.
That's what I tell myself anyways. :lol
Enhancement of HD screengrabs from Trekcore. They don't seem to have taken any grabs from frames where you can see the lid clearly.
It does seem that the gridwheels on this prop are polygonal rather than round as in the Worldcon/fanfilm prop.
It does seem that the gridwheels on this prop are polygonal rather than round as in the Worldcon/fanfilm prop.
Wow, it's been so long since I've seen those shows, that I didn't remember that communicator! What a great looking little prop! I'd love to have one of those and a TOS era Klingon "Sonic" Disruptor pistol to go with it!
Can someone tell me where the Klingon sonic disruptor description came from? I all the episodes In have seen that named them, they were called Klingon phasers.
David.
I've been around the whole time :lol and to me it's grating to hear them called "phasers". In fact I think the term "phaser" wasn't used to refer to a Klingon weapon, until the movie Star Trek IV.
Even the weapons mounted on the ships, were called "disruptors". Whether the term "sonic distruptor" is used in the scripts or only in background material such as "the Making of Star Trek", I can't remember. The Eminian weapons were repeatedly called disruptors in "Taste of Armageddon".
Edit: I stand corrected! :lol According to the scripts at "Star Trek Sickbay", weapons (the sound effect of them anyway) are called "Klingon phasers" in "Errand of Mercy"! :eek
So I guess the term "sonic disruptor" comes from background material after all.
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Even the weapons mounted on the ships, were called "disruptors". Whether the term "sonic distruptor" is used in the scripts or only in background material such as "the Making of Star Trek", I can't remember. The Eminian weapons were repeatedly called disruptors in "Taste of Armageddon".
Edit: I stand corrected! :lol According to the scripts at "Star Trek Sickbay", weapons (the sound effect of them anyway) are called "Klingon phasers" in "Errand of Mercy"! :eek
So I guess the term "sonic disruptor" comes from background material after all.
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Tremas
Master Member
We'll have to see if Blu Ray screencaps offer any more detail. The comm first shows up as Eminiar VII technology in "Taste of Armageddon" (note there's no slot in the flipgrid)
Then it's Klingon tech in "Errand of Mercy"
And it gets featured again as the communicator of a Klingon spy in "Elaan of Troyius"
(last montage includes a frame from "Taste of Armageddon")
Also the "slot" in the flipgrid might just be a decal; there's a Klingon design in "Errand of Mercy" which does not get noticed much but it sort of has similarities to a pin worn on the Klingon costumes and may be the design on the comm lid.
I don't think it's a slot; I saw something online once that it's the emblem that's also on the Klingon proclamation. I think it was on Bernd Schneider's site.
TheSt.LouisKid
Sr Member
Cool. You got a link?
Tiberius Kirk
Sr Member
It's the Klingon Imperial Symbol.
Tremas
Master Member
Tiberius Kirk
Sr Member
It the graphic at the top of the document pictured below.
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